Lord Vader
01-31-2006, 07:52 PM
The Hughes HDVR2 in my bedroom is doing something strange. I noticed that the guide info beyond roughly 18 hours is missing on most of the channels--it's random, which means that it happens on all the channels at various times. When I pull up the program guide to, say, see what's on A&E, or one of my local channels 24 hours from now, some of the cells are populated with info while others are not. What seems even stranger is that while some guide cells are not populated with info, others following a particular time slot(s) are. For instance, Sunday night I advanced the guide to record "Flight 93" on A&E Monday evening. Well, those cells in the program guide were blank, but the ones following that time slot were not. On the History Channel right below A&E, that time slot's cell was populated, but ones before and after were not; and so on...
Worse, I've noticed that this lack of guide info on certain channels at certain times has resulted in one of my season passes to not record. For example, last night my bedroom HDVR2 was supposed to have recorded 24. That is #1 in that DTIVO's season pass list. It didn't record it (fortunately my primary DTIVO in the living room does), and when I checked everything, the DTIVO recorded history told me something along the lines that it wasn't available. Now, this wasn't way in advance, either.
DTIVO's are supposed to have about 10-14 days of program guide info downloaded into them. This particular unit--all of my other ones are fine--doesn't. I've rebooted it both ways, but that hasn't worked. Everything else on the unit checks out OK. I'm just baffled as to what could be causing this. When I spoke to a DirecTV technician, she couldn't figure it out either and told me she'd send me a free replacement R15. I told her the hell she would. I wasn't going to take a DirecTV DVR. They can pry my DTIVO from my cold, dead hands.
BTW, I did attempt to do a clear & delete reboot, the one where I clear the program data and to-do list. That doesn't seem to have worked, because a scan through the guide over the next 24 hours yields the same result: blank, informationless cells in the program guide.
Anyway...does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Worse, I've noticed that this lack of guide info on certain channels at certain times has resulted in one of my season passes to not record. For example, last night my bedroom HDVR2 was supposed to have recorded 24. That is #1 in that DTIVO's season pass list. It didn't record it (fortunately my primary DTIVO in the living room does), and when I checked everything, the DTIVO recorded history told me something along the lines that it wasn't available. Now, this wasn't way in advance, either.
DTIVO's are supposed to have about 10-14 days of program guide info downloaded into them. This particular unit--all of my other ones are fine--doesn't. I've rebooted it both ways, but that hasn't worked. Everything else on the unit checks out OK. I'm just baffled as to what could be causing this. When I spoke to a DirecTV technician, she couldn't figure it out either and told me she'd send me a free replacement R15. I told her the hell she would. I wasn't going to take a DirecTV DVR. They can pry my DTIVO from my cold, dead hands.
BTW, I did attempt to do a clear & delete reboot, the one where I clear the program data and to-do list. That doesn't seem to have worked, because a scan through the guide over the next 24 hours yields the same result: blank, informationless cells in the program guide.
Anyway...does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.